olte
Keywords: modifiers, adverbs, prepositions, chaining, mood, modal
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'ol.de |
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| Part of Speech: | modifier |
| Class: | adverb, adjective, pali |
| Forms: | olte, olten |
| Glosses: | possible, possibly, possibility, maybe, perhaps |
Description:
The modifier 'olte' is used as a general sentence-level adverbial modifier for 'maybe' or 'perhaps'. It can also be used as an adverb or adjective to say that something or some action is possible. As the term 'olten' it means 'possibility', and can be used as a pali intransitive verb meaning 'to be possible'.